Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:47:09 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Am I getting too old Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401220834300.66837@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBvhVNSwXH%2BYCd5X4y6jjKTZJMSvPvpRj1N=NXessFYXOrg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2Bg%2BBvhVNSwXH%2BYCd5X4y6jjKTZJMSvPvpRj1N=NXessFYXOrg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Olivier Nicole wrote: > in the old times (FreeBSD 8) it took me 5 minutes to partition a disk > for a test machine: create a couple of MS DOS partitions, install the > MBR, create FreeBSD partitions, done. It used to be working easily, > efficiently and reliably. > > Now it had been one day since I tried to reproduce that with FreeBSD > 9, not to avail: I always end up with messaged saying things like > invalid partition, or stuff like that. > > What was the rational behind the decision of breaking something that > used to work fine (that had been working fine for over 10 years) and > replace it with something that is ugly, unfriendly (you have to give > some types to the partitions, but nowhere is it written what type is > allowed or not) and that is not working? > > Oh maybe if I choose to go all by default it will work, but I don't > want the default, I want to be allowed to make my own choices easily. Is this about sysinstall versus bsdinstall? Or fdisk/bsdlabel versus gpart? sysinstall was fine for me, except when it unpredictably overwrote the MBR even after being told not to. sade was, well, the same thing. For disk partitioning, I find gpart much easier to use than sysinstall, sade, fdisk (FreeBSD, Linux, or MS-DOS), bsdlabel, or the partition editor in bsdinstall. Here are my notes on using gpart to set up GPT or MBR/BSDLabel: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html There is a separate version for SSDs which has all the steps on a quick summary which is also applicable to hard drives: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ssd.html
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